The Tin Palace

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The Tin Palace was a New York jazz music venue that existed on the Lower East Side in the 1970s .

history

The Tin Palace jazz club (325 Bowery , corner of Second Street) was founded in 1970 by the Brooklyn- born writer and sailor Paul Pines. After running the club until 1975/76, there was a brief go-go club there . The jazz critic Stanley Crouch reactivated the jazz club briefly in 1978.

Jazz musicians such as Clifford Jordan , the World Saxophone Quartet , Eddie Jefferson , Richie Cole , Jimmy Giuffre , Roscoe Mitchell and Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre have performed there in the years of its existence . After the decline of the Slug's Saloon , the club became a venue for musicians of the jazz avant-garde in addition to the loft scene ; with Harry Lewis Pines organized a Sunday series of events with avant-garde jazz , etc. a. with Julius Hemphill , Oliver Lake , David Murray , James Blood Ulmer , Sunny Murray , Bobo Shaw and Henry Threadgill , while straight-ahead jazz was offered on weekdays. In May 1976 u. a. Roswell Rudd , Sheila Jordan , René McLean , Cecil McBee , Jeanne Lee , Roscoe Mitchell and Philip Wilson . The club recorded the performances of Richie Cole, Eddie Jefferson and Eric Kloss . Around 1979/80 there were still John Ore , Harold Vick , Clarence Sharpe , Shirley Scott and Benny Green on.

Paul Pines processed his memories of the club in his book Last Call at the Tin Palace (Marsh Hawk Press). Stanley Crouch and David Murray lived in a loft above the venue in the early 1970s. In the immediate vicinity on Bond Street was The Ladies' Fort (operated by Joe Lee Wilson ). In 2007, The Tribeca Performing Arts Center commemorated the Tin Palace with its Lost Jazz Shrines event series .

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Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Paul Pines' website
  2. ↑ 325 Bowery gets scrubbed and painted in the blog Ev Grieve (2010)
  3. ↑ Feature in Crown Propeller
  4. ^ Benjamin Looker: Point from which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis . 2004, p. 233
  5. ^ Gary Giddins : Visions of Jazz: The First Century . 1998, p. 548.
  6. ↑ Portrait of the club by Andy Schwartz (2008)
  7. ^ Fred Parcells: A New York Jazz Diary
  8. ^ Stanley Crouch: Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz . 2009. p. 280 f.
  9. ↑ The Tribeca Performing Arts Center's Lost Jazz Shrines Celebrates Tin Palace (2007)

Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ 32.5 ″  N , 73 ° 59 ′ 32.5 ″  W.